Re: Unknown natlang

        I plugged this into two language guessers. TextCat guessed
Indonesian, while XRCE guessed Turkish. I can see both areas having some of
the anti-American sentiment the original author mentioned, so I really can't
narrow it down, or even guarantee either guess is right. It's just someplace
to start.
        BTW: I remember the girlfriend of a woman I knew, the girlfriend was
from the Philippines, mentioning a similar word to "gringo" in Tagalong. It
is also from the Spanish influence. Indonesian is a nearby language to
Tagalong.

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Roger Mills [mailto:romilly@EGL.NET]
| Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 12:54 AM
| To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
| Subject: Re: Unknown natlang
|
|
| Steve Kramer wrote:
|
|
| >Can anyone recognize or translate this?  It was on another
| list, from the
| >same person who quoted in Catalan earlier, a Spaniard; a
| Basque on that
| >list confirmed it was not Basque....
| >"Iaek megeri sagituce kede rañek ñe m´Osama nikosaik des
| m´gemataik amoc
| >gringori."
|
|
| Absolutely unrecognizable to me.  (At first glance I thought
| it might be a
| relative of Kash.....)  "gringori" is a little suggestive, maybe some
| obscure Mexican or Central American language??? Who else
| calls us gringos?
| But would they be all that interested in Mr. b L.?
|

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